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LESSONS FROM ALL RECENT ‘WAVE’ ELECTIONS

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) ——————————————————————————– Impermanent Majority The lesson of all the recent ‘wave’ elections. Noemie Emery November 15, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 09 Remember 2008, the liberal era, the “we are all socialists now” frenzy, the realignment brought about by the magic of Barack Obama, that transcendent persuader, that peerless orator, that […]

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FOREIGN-POLICY SETBACKS DEEPEN OBAMA’S ELECTION WOUNDS

WASHINGTON POST Foreign-policy setbacks deepen Obama’s election wounds By Scott Wilson Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, November 19, 2010; 6:51 AM Presidents have often turned to foreign policy after domestic setbacks – from Ronald Reagan’s Latin American tour and speech calling the Soviet Union the “focus of evil in the modern world” in the months

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THIS LAME DUCK SESSION OF CONGRESS SHOULD BE THE LAST

NOVEMBER 18, 2010 In 1933, Americans ratified the 20th Amendment to eliminate lame duck Congresses. For two decades Washington has been ignoring its intent. By BETSY MCCAUGHEY Americans ought to make this lame duck session of Congress the last in history. Members who lose re-election have no moral authority to continue governing: They were fired

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THE FANNIE MAE REPUBLICANS

NOVEMBER 16, 2010 Some born again reformers were once the company’s defenders. A major task for the next Congress will be rewriting the laws governing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and House Republicans have now won a seat at that table. Which makes it all the more important that their seat not be occupied by

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BOOK REVIEW – DUPES: HOW AMERICA’S ADVERSARIES HAVE MANIPULATED PROGRESSIVES FOR A CENTURY

THE WASHINGTON TIMES   November 1, 2010 Reviewed by Wes Vernon DUPES: HOW AMERICA’S ADVERSARIES HAVE MANIPULATED PROGRESSIVES FOR A CENTURY By Paul Kengor ISI Books, $29.95, 497 pages “I think we’re going to hell in a handbasket.” That comment was uttered at a recent public gathering here in Washington by Paul Kengor, political science

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NEW DEAL OR RAW DEAL?

November 5, 2010 Book asks: New Deal or Raw Deal? By Thomas Sowell, Syndicated Columnist The Picayune Item PICAYUNE — Guess who said the following: “We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.” Was it Sarah Palin? Rush Limbaugh? Karl Rove? Not even

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REPUBLICANS MAKE BIG GAINS IN STATES ACROSS THE COUNTRY

Devastation: GOP Picks Up 680 State Leg. Seats Thursday, November 04, 2010 NationalJournal ^ | 11/4/2010 | Jeremy P. Jacobs While the Republican gains in the House and Senate are grabbing the most headlines, the most significant results on Tuesday came in state legislatures where Republicans wiped the floor with Democrats. Republicans picked up 680

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